Question 1

Which statement about allele frequencies is not true?

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A)   The sum of all allele frequencies at a locus is always 1.
B)   If there are two alleles at a locus and we know the frequency of one of them, we can obtain the frequency of the other by subtraction.
C)   If an allele is missing from a population, its frequency in that population is 0.
D)   If two populations have the same allele frequencies at a locus, they must have the same proportion of homozygotes at that locus.
E)   If there is only one allele at a locus, its frequency is 1.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 2

What was Darwin's explanation for the evolution of bright colors and other apparently useless (and potentially deleterious)  but conspicuous characters in males of many species?

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A)   Stabilizing selection
B)   Genetic drift
C)   Sexual selection
D)   Disruptive selection
E)   Gene flowF) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 3

Genetic variation within a population may be maintained by

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A)   frequency-dependent selection.
B)   the accumulation of neutral alleles.
C)   sexual recombination.
D)   heterozygote advantage.
E)   All of the aboveF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

Which of the following is not a goal of population genetics?

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A)   Explaining the patterns of genetic variation
B)   Explaining how genotypic information is expressed as phenotypic traits
C)   Explaining the origins of genotypic variation
D)   Understanding the mechanisms by which allele frequencies change in populations
E)   Explaining how genetic variation is maintainedF) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 5

Which of the following would not be considered an example of a trade-off?

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A)   Brightly colored male guppies are more successful at acquiring mates than other males but are more likely to be killed by predators.
B)   Humans that carry the e4 allele for the Apo-E gene are at greater risk than individuals without this allele for acquiring Alzheimer's and coronary heart disease.
C)   Rats that are resistant to the poison warfarin have an increased need for vitamin K.
D)   All of the above
E)   None of the aboveF) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

The Hardy-Weinberg expression is an expansion of a binomial, or (p + q)2 = p2 + 2pq + q2. In this equation, the left-hand side represents _______ frequencies, and the right-hand side represents _______ frequencies.

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Question 7

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Suppose you have a population of flour beetles with 1,000 individuals. Normally the beetles are red; however, this population is polymorphic for a mutant autosomal body color, black, designated by b/b. Red is dominant to black, so B/B and B/b genotypes are red. Assume the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, with equal frequencies of the two alleles.
-What would be the expected red and black allele frequencies if 1000 black individuals migrated into the population?

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A)   0.75 red; 0.25 black
B)   0.25 red; 0.75 black
C)   0.33 red; 0.67 black
D)   They would not change because the population would still be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
E)   None of the aboveF) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

Suppose the population size of a species of field mice is two million. It has a mutation rate of 2 $\times$ 10-9 and its genome size is three billion. The number of new mutations that appear in this species would be about _______.

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Question 9

Disruptive selection maintains a bimodal distribution of bill size in the West African seedcracker because

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A)   bills of intermediate shapes are difficult to form.
B)   the birds' two major food sources differ markedly in size and hardness.
C)   males use their large bills in displays.
D)   migrants introduce different bill sizes into the population each year.
E)   older birds need larger bills than younger birds.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

According to the scientific definition of the word theory, a theory is

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A)   a hypothesis.
B)   largely a matter of guesswork.
C)   a large body of knowledge.
D)   an estimate.
E)   a supposition.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 11

Darwin published The Origin of Species

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A)   before 1840.
B)   between 1841 and 1880.
C)   between 1881 and 1920.
D)   between 1921 and 1960.
E)   after 1960.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

Which of the following tends to reduce genetic variation within populations?

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A)   Genetic drift
B)   Stabilizing selection
C)   Directional selection
D)   All of the above
E)   None of the aboveF) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 13

When researchers observe populations that have large deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, they can safely dismiss which of the following mechanisms as the explanation for the deviation?

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A)   Natural selection
B)   Gene flow
C)   Nonrandom mating
D)   Mutation
E)   None of the aboveF) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 14

Describe what is meant by sexual selection and how the sexual selection of tail length in male widowbirds was studied by behavioral ecologists as described in the textbook.

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Question 15

Which of the following statements about sexual selection is true?

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A)   Traits favored by sexual selection are often costly to males.
B)   Sexual selection operates primarily on survival success.
C)   Females gain a fitness benefit by choosing males on the basis of traits that can easily be faked.
D)   Darwin's contemporaries immediately recognized the importance of his ideas about sexual selection.
E)   Sexual selection applies to the ability of individuals of one sex to compete for access to members of the opposite sex, not to matters of sexual attractiveness.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 16

Which of the following modes of selection results in a decrease in variation?

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A)   Stabilizing selection only
B)   Directional selection only
C)   Disruptive selection only
D)   Both directional and disruptive selection
E)   Both stabilizing and directional selectionF) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 17

Suppose that females of a species of beetles prefer to mate with males that have relatively rare color patterns. This observation would be an illustration of

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A)   Muller's ratchet.
B)   genetic drift.
C)   the founder effect.
D)   frequency-dependent selection.
E)   disruptive selection.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 18

Evolution occurs at the level of

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A)   the individual genotype.
B)   the individual phenotype.
C)   environmentally based phenotypic variation.
D)   the population.
E)   the speciesF) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

Genetic variation is

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A)   favored by variation in the environment.
B)   maintained in subpopulations of the same species.
C)   generated by recombination.
D)   disfavored by frequency-dependent selection.
E)   a, b, and cF) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

Studies of enzyme genotypes and flight in Colias butterflies showed that

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A)   males that are heterozygous at PGI are always inferior in flight compared to homozygotes.
B)   males that are heterozygous at PGI have greater mating success than homozygous males because they are able to fly farther in a broad range of temperatures.
C)   genotypes at PGI do not affect flight ability.
D)   flight ability and mating success are not correlated.
E)   flight ability can be explained by Muller's ratchet.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

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The Hardy-Weinberg expression is an expansion of a binomial, or (p + q)² = p² + 2pq + q². In this equation, the left-hand side represents _ frequencies, and the right-hand side represents _ frequencies.

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Suppose the population size of a species of field mice is two million. It has a mutation rate of 2 $\times$ 10^-⁹ and its genome size is three billion. The number of new mutations that appear in this species would be about _______.

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Which of the following is not a goal of population genetics?

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